Hamas strike on Israel - mod warning in OP updated 19/10/23

North Gaza the heavy bombing is finished. The IDF will have to pull the place apart looking for and destroying Hamas infrastructure and urban warfare against both terrorists and hostile civilians.

Hamas have had years to construct their infrastructure . Years of taxing the Palestinians and stealing aid to fund their organisation. This will take some time but after what happened on October 7th Israel must see it through .

It's 25k tonnes of explosives not 25k bombs

Also 4,500 children not 5,500

It's important to be accurate.

Some people would be better off not posting on this thread, they're coming across as not having a clue what they're talking about.

Asking who Palestinians in Gaza should be defending themselves from, not knowing about the thousands held without charge in Israeli prisons.

It's like they went on the IDF twitter account for 30 minutes and then decided to weigh in to the discussion.

It never ceases to amaze me and they accept every word Israel and the IDF utter and every atrocity they commit. Beyond belief.

From Sky new earlier.

Also, the largest bomb Israel can drop is a 2000lb bomb ~0.9 ton, so if every bomb dropped was a 2000lb bomb that would mean they dropped 27700+ bombs. I was just rounding down. But yes, it's much much much more than 25k bombs as not all will be 2000lb bombs.

Oh I thought that video footage had to be fake Israeli misinformation.So the nice doctors were tending to their new inpatients after all?

I hope they remembered to give them wrist tags in case anyone needed to see them afterwards for a second opinion.

A very nasty "arbeit macht free.Zionist" comment buried in among the comments.

I wonder is there any point reporting such comments or will Twitter just push them up in their algorithm rankings now?

This has nothing to do with how people feel about Jews, it's how people feel about a genocidal rogue state butchering women and children as it seeks to occupy another country and is doing all this while supported by the US, the EU and powerful countries worldwide who profess to promote morality.

But keep the same energy for 2024 and beyond when Jewish people are being told by the conservatives cheering them on right now that 'they will not be replaced by them'.

I know when that happens again, I'll be advocating for the Jewish people and I know that a lot of the people who are cheering Israel on right now on this platform will be making excuses about the definition of free speech versus hate speech.

I haven't made a single anti-jewish post on this thread, or anywhere else, nor have any of the frequent pro-Palestinian posters as far as I have seen. But I refuse to accept Judaism and Israel as the same entity, just because radical extremists within the government and military of the latter label anyone who disagrees with them as being antisemitic. Their get out of jail free card to do that is no longer valid. And hasn't been for a long time.

It's time to hold them accountable for their actions and the dangers they have brought on Jewish people worldwide which will likely exist for a long time.

This is from the US yesterday.

This is what I was talking about when I said about right wing activism in the US and how it will target the Jewish communities.

Make no mistake, these people have no interest or fondness for Palestine but Israel's actions will mean that there will be less people eager to oppose these types of individuals in the same way as they would have done up until very recently.

Unfortunately though, middle America will likely try to conflate the growth of these groups with Palestine support and thus will also make Muslims communities targets of sorts.

It all makes for a very volatile environment. and make no mistake, Israel is responsible for this escalating at this moment.

The reality for Palestinians on the West Bank. Hopefully the more reporting on this; the better chance of change.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67463162?fbclid=PAAaYMHEHxpfpmHJMXL-BbUNMxpa4ckcnH5IpWKkZikF2HNWgiK22artk7-kw_aem_AbFvv27q9EPd3hJqo7_H0Vooe713n87CHo34R4Tt6ZjY3t-BzZ5lFzVTNUwWPyF544M

There's a warning on the first post that it's not allowed. Also, just to remind you, no one here is supporting Hamas, no matter what way it gets twisted, supporting a ceasefire and supporting the civilians of Palestine is not tacit support of Hamas.

Do you really believe that Hamas videoed themselves burning civilians to death. Have you seen or heard about these videos or read about them online or in newspapers? Where?

That's ironic considering my post above yours.

The IDF has stated this morning that they have killed 3 more terrorist commanders in air strikes carried out last night

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-3-hamas-company-commanders-killed-in-overnight-strikes/

Why the F would you even want to post something like that? Like what is wrong with you?

There's no shortage of videos of people being horrifically killed, on both sides, what do you hope to achieve by posting such a video?

Like, do you think that if one person is killed in a particular heinous manner, that it justifies the killing of 10 or 15 people on the other side to some how balance the books.

Looks confirmed for certain now.